Have you ever had the experience of giving yourself fully to the Lord or renewing your consecration to Him, only to have that active devotion followed by the most difficult outward experiences imaginable? To our nature mind, this makes no sense; if we give ourselves so completely to follow Him, we would think that He would then take care of all our outward problems. But in the spiritual realm, often the more genuinely we offer ourselves to Christ, the more difficult our outward situation becomes. Why this apparently irony? We will find out today. Please don’t miss this life study program. As we come once again to consider the pathway to glory from the gospel of Matthew.